Stuff that MattRs - #236

This Weeks Stuff: ✅ List one task, do it, cross it out | ✅ Win or Learn this week | ✅ Five ways to stay calm | ✅ Paper or Keyboard? | ✅ Learn to Validate Others | ✅ Eject Disk | 🔗 Play Which Year?

Before we start - will you answer my ONE QUESTION survey?

🔥 Key Stuff:  List one task, do it, cross it out.

Oliver Burkemann gets back to basics for task management. (via Oliver Burkemann)

• This is the most basic (and effective) way to manage a task list. 
• Reducing your focus to the next most important thing keeps you moving forward. 

🏆 Win or Learn this Week

Learn the power of a Tiny Experiment as a low-stake way of improving your life. 

• Run a small pact with yourself to see exponential growth.
• Everything you test is data for the best version of you. 

🧠  Five ways to stay calm

You deserve to be relaxed, focused and in control of your day. (via Postanly)

• #3 in this list is a superb reminder of why many of us feel anxiety
• Five excellent ideas on what it takes to be more calm.

 📝 Paper or Keyboard?

An objective look at which note-taking method is better. (Via The Conversation)

• I use both, every day - paper for notes, electronic for building a PKM
• Which do you use and why? 

👀 Learn to Validate Others

Making someone feel seen and heard will improve personal and work relationships. (via Psyche)

• Understand what validation is, and isn’t
• Learn validation skills and watch the quality of your relationships sky rocket

🔋 Eject Disk. 

What follows here isn’t a framework or a fix—it’s a declaration. (via BrilliantCrank)

• A manifesto for everyone that feels overwhelmed or burned out. 
• A fascinating call to action for anyone that feels stuck in a system.

📆 Which Year?

Super simple, guess the year that the photo was taken - closest to the pin wins!

My Week Elsewhere

Some updates from the week, highly recommended music, and some great listens from my ears to yours.